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Jun. 18, 2013

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Indiana's Sam Travis hit maybe the hardest ball of the College World Series so far. Too bad for the Hoosiers it wasn't about six or seven feet higher.

Travis drilled a pitch off the center-field fence with a runner on first base and IU trailing by two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning against Mississippi State on Monday night. He ended up with a well-earned double and IU later scored, but Travis was stranded on third base as the Bulldogs held on for a 5-4 victory.

"I hit it pretty hard," Travis said. "I hit it too much of a line for it to go out, so I was running hard right out of the box. I was hoping to get ...